Relationship between Empowerment and Organizational Commitment of NAJA Personnel

This study aims to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment of Najapolice personnel.
To explain the concept of empowerment, a combination of theoretical models of Mishra and Spreitzer (1991), are used who consideredempowerment in five dimensions including:a sense of competence, a sense of autonomy, a sense of effectiveness, a sense of significance and confidence and to measure the organizational commitment concept, Allen and Meyer (1998) pattern was used which has identifiedorganizational commitment in aspects of affective commitment, continuous commitment and normative commitment.
The study was descriptive - correlationaland 317 questionnaires were distributed among the statistical population of police headquarter through classified relational and random sampling. Validity or the data collection tool was calculated through experts and its reliability through Cronbach's Alpha (0.84).
Results of testing hypothesessuggest that there is a significant positive relationshipbetween five dimensions of empowerment and organizational commitment. The findings also suggest that there is a relationship between a sense of competence, autonomy, significance, effectiveness and trust and organizational commitment, therefore, with regard to the empowerment of staff, it is considered a valuable strategy for improving organizational commitment of employees, that managers and commanders need totake steps in this direction by giving freedom of action, effective management, enhancing motivation, self-management power, in-servicetraining and so on.